Guarded by a few S.S. fanatics, Hitler and 75 holdouts live in a concrete box hammered day and night by artillery fire. This 1973 British-Italian production about the Führer's final days in a Berlin bunker was the earliest English-language film to dramatize the topic. Ennio de Concini reinforces the grim surrealism of the bunker by interspersing documentary footage of Russian troops overrunning the German capital. Alec Guinness's portrayal of the drug-addled and disease-ridden Führer was lauded by critics, and the actor himself considered it one of his top performances. Though most of the principal performers speak English, some of the Italian actors' dialogue has been dubbed by English actors.